DʿMT & early highlandsRIÉ 2

The kingship of DʿMT

A two-line royal fragment preserves the formula ‘became king of DʿMT, its east and west’ and the deity ḏt-Bʿdn.

Date: Early 1st millennium–5th/4th c. BCE
Place: Abba Pantaleon, Aksum
Language: Ethiopian Early Sabaic
Script: Ancient South Arabian

01 · Original text

Ethiopian Early Sabaic

Ancient South ArabianSurviving text; DASI lineation retained

[... ...]𐩣𐩡𐩫𐩥 𐩵𐩲𐩣𐩩 𐩣𐩦𐩧𐩤[-𐩠𐩺 𐩥-𐩣𐩲𐩧𐩨-𐩠𐩺 ... ...]

[... ...](𐩥)-𐩹𐩩-𐩨𐩲𐩵𐩬 𐩥-𐩱𐩨-[𐩫 𐩥𐩵𐩣 ... ...]

Normalized Old South Arabian letters follow the DASI reading, including its line breaks and editorial brackets. See the image for the engraved letter forms.

Scholarly transliteration

[... ...]mlkw Dʿmt ms²rq[-hy w-mʿrb-hy ... ...] [... ...](w)-ḏt-Bʿdn w-ʾb-[k Wdm ... ...]

02 · Translation

English translation

[…] he became king of DʿMT, its east [and its west …]; […] and ḏt-Bʿdn and your father [Wdm …].

DASI CSAI English translation; data CC BY 4.0

Joined across DASI display lines; editorial brackets and uncertainty marks are retained.

Sources

Editions & references

Edition, catalogue, and image records used for this entry.

RIÉ 2 / DAE 1 / RES 3549 / CIH 505 / DASI 7566
Giulia Buono, ‘RIÉ 2 DAE 1; RES 3549; CIH 505’, DASI, first published 2015-01-05

Habesha History corpus

David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation (2012), p. 38